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“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
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“Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own loaves and fishes.'-- Stephen Colbert”
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“The word 'still' has entered my life. People say to me, 'You're still traveling, you're still wearing blue jeans.”
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“Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.”
― Code Name Verity
― Code Name Verity
“[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
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(Est. Feb 14, 2008) More than a reading group of women but a place for honest, respectful, intelligent conversations led by adult women. Discussions a ...more
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